[Test-Announce] Fedora 19 Alpha Test Compose 2 (TC2) Available Now!

[Andre Robatino]

On 03/28/2013 03:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 14:24 +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote:

>> As aid to people quickly scanning email, please markup URLs
>> so they're clickable, like:
>>
>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/
>> https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ (mirror (1 hour lag))
> 
> This isn't a bug, it's a feature ;) We intentionally don't provide
> easily-clickable download locations in the announcement email to try and
> ensure only people who are at least committed enough to click on (and
> hopefully read) the testing instructions page download the images. We
> don't want TC and RC images in the hands of drive-by downloaders, that
> isn't what they're for; we structure the pages and announcements to try
> and gently encourage this.

The reason I wasn't including these paths was because each test page
uses slightly different download links, so I thought it would scale
better to use the redirection. But looking at the pages, everything is
under https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/ , so I was thinking
about putting something like this in the announcement:

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Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs)
and testing instructions. Normally

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/

should provide the fastest download, but

https://download-ib01.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC3/

is available as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of
trouble.

Installation Test Results:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test

Base Test Results:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test

Desktop Test Results:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test

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Personally I don't think we should be going out of our way to discourage
drive-bys unless bandwidth is in short supply and they're sucking too
much of it away from the real testers. Drive-bys could become real
testers later.

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